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Tag Archives: Daddy
Happy Father’s Day 2024!!
To all the fathers out there who realize being a daddy isn’t just to bring a child into the world. It is to raise them. It is to love them. It is to teach, clothe, and help them blossom into … Continue reading
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Tagged Become, Best Ability, Blossom, Child, Clothe, Daddy, Fathers, God, Good and Abiding, Greatest Privilege, Happy Father's Day 2024, Help, Love, Men, Nth Degree, Our Love, Persons, Raise, Shepherds, Teach, Thought For the Day, World
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Torn As A Teenage Girl’s Heart
Torn As A Teenage Girl’s Heartby Michael DoyleThis one has me in tears before I even startWatching torn as a teenage girl’s heartThe princess who loved me like her biggest heroYells at me and treats me as less than zeroOnly … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Arms, Asleep, Beautiful, Bed, Best Friend, Blessing, Bolder, Climb, Close, Crime, Daddy, Dead, Destroy My Will, Doubt, Fall, Feelings, Forgiving, Give Them My All, Good Night, Grow Out of This, Heart, Heart Hurts, Helping Her Out, Hero, Hormones, Hour Has Grown Late, Hour Later, Instead, Intensity, Kleenex, Knows, Less Than Zero, Life, Love and Respect, Loved Me, Loving, Miss, Neglect, Nothing Could kill, Older, On Her Side, Pillow, Poetry and Poems, Princess, Quietly Whisper, Rage, Reach Out, Reason For Living, Remember, Rushing Out, Said, Seriously, She Has This Thing, She'll Turn Around Again, Sleeping, Smiles Sweetly, Start, Study, Suddenly, Tears, Teenage Girl, Temper, Tight, Too Sensitive, Torn, Upend, Wise Woman, Years, Yell
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Thought For the Day: I Want To See How the Story Turns Out
“One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter — who was a child at the time — asked me, “Daddy, why are you writing so fast?” And I replied, “Because I want to see how the … Continue reading
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Tagged Child, Daddy, Daughter, Fast, How the Story Turns Out, Louis L'Amour, One Day, Thought For the Day, Time, Typewriter, Want To See, Writing
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And Suddenly…
And Suddenly…by Michael DoyleAnd suddenly, I was the guy on the floorThe pain in my chestToo difficult to ignoreThe daughters stood thereIn frozen frames of timeBeing brave despite their fearWould daddy live to share another rhyme?Dear Lord, don’t let me … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Another Day, As All Men, Being Brave, Brave, Break, Breathe, Breathing Shallow, Chest, Clinging Closely, Daddy, Daughters, Dear Lord, Defiantly, Don't Let me Be Gone, Don't Let Me Die, Explosive, Feeling, Feeling Sorry, For the Grave, Force, God, Guy On the Floor, Holding Close, Holding On, Hopeful, Ignore, In Every Way, Into, Into My Source, Live, Looking Deeply, Meaning, My Daughters Eyes, My Heart's Fibers, My Love, Of My Mistakes, Only God's Help, Pain, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Pushing Back, Quietly Begging, Reaching Deep, Save, See Them, Share, Sigh, Speaking Encouraging Words, Suddenly, Their Fear, Their Voices, There, This Test, Too Difficult, Truth, Unready, What I Would Give, Whispered Softly
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Ghosts of A Daddy’s Duty
Ghosts of A Daddy’s Dutyby Michael DoyleSpent the weekendHoping for the GodsendThat of finding a ghostOr, at least making the mostOf finding a haunted houseQuiet like a church mouseCreeping around a shadow’s homeWondering if we are aloneWe didn’t find any … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Around, Believe, Church Mouse, Creeping, Dad, Daddy, Daddy Duty, Driving, Duty, Fear, Find, Fun, Gain, Ghost, Ghosts, Godsend, Haunted House, Home, Hope, Less, Making the Most, Miles, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Saw, Shadow, Smiles, Spirits, Weekend, Wonder, Young
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Happiest of Fathers Day!!
Wishing every father out there that they know the love of being a daddy who is richly blessed by the love of his children!! As for me and mine, I think we’re heading out for a short road trip!! … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessed, Children, Daddy, Happy Fathers Day!, Love, Road Trip, Thought of the Day, Wish
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Dancing Cheek To Cheek
Thinking on the Prohibition, flappers, gangsters and murder as she wrote… Dancing Cheek To Cheek by Michael Doyle Dancing cheek to cozy cheek Might bring us to ruin Libertine as it is It might lead to our undoing The habits … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alone, Begin, Brave, Breath, Cheek To Cheek, Confess, Control, Cozy, Crime, Daddy, Dance, Darkness, Death, Deceptive, Escalation, Explain, Fear, Fiction, First Light, First Warning, Flapper, Gangster, Habit, Him, Home, Implore, Inhalation, Lead, Libertine, Mess, Murder, Partnership, Perfect, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Prohibition, Race, Real, Reveal, Roll, Ruin, Sad, Safe, See, She, Somewhere, Soul, Sublime, Time, Understand, Undoing, Volatile, Wrote
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Stay On the Path
Due to time constraints and a day much better spent with my two princesses, I will be going off prompt from Day 25 of Na/GloPoWriMo gazillion requirements for a form of poetry that I would never want to write in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anew, Animals, Around, Awake, Breath, Brighter, Bud, Citizens, Clearing, Come, Come and Go, Constraint, Daddy, Days, Deer, Earth Day, Endear, Every Day, Explore, Fall, Father, Flowers, Flutter, Forest Floor, Green, Ground, Harm, Her, Hours, Ignore, Joy, Lessons, Life, Lighter, Living Creatures, Load, Lock, Mark, Memories, Na/GloPoWriMo, Near, New, Newborn, Notice, Off Prompt, Old, Pass, Path, Photograph, Plot, Poem, Poetry, Poppa, Protective Canopy, Rays, Recall, Rules, School, Scurry, Seasons, Shape, Spring, Stay, Taught, Valleys, Value, Wake, Warm Days, World, Worry
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Father’s Day With My Daughters 2019
Two hours isn’t nearly long enough, but, at least it was some time. https://flic.kr/p/Qz7KFk Father’s Day With My Daughters (2019) by Michael Romani Some dads find it fine to have bragging rights In that they’ve done in spending sleepless nights … Continue reading
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Tagged 2019, Angel, Better, Bragging Rights, Cherish, Daddy, Daughters, Dream, Empathy, Father's Day, Gift, Hug, Human Being, Life, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Questions, Sleepless Nights, Trouble, Ultra Sound, Voice
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